WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR WITH A GUEST SELFIE

by Janet Blue on January 1, 2017

Sunday Selfies: Week #125

As Kitties Blue embark on a new year, we’d like to wish all our followers, friends and supporters a new year that brings each of you only good things. This past year was overly sad for us and many of you. Our resolution for 2017 is to put on happy faces and try to look ahead with positive attitudes.

We wanted to begin 2017 by doing something special, so today we are introducing you to a friend and giving her the honor of guest hosting the first Sunday Selfies blog hop of the new year. And here she is now.

We’d like you to meet Allie. Look at that gorgeous face! Allie is a seven-year-old, bi-eyed, short-haired, white-furred beauty. She lost her elderly person and went through a grieving process but now is ready for her new home. She is in a wonderful Barn Cat Buddies foster home, but it is not her first one. We’d so love for her to have a New Year’s miracle and find the loving, forever home she deserves.

Allie would make a great companion for a senior person. She loves to snuggle at night and sleep next to her person in bed. She is a little shy at first but once she realizes you are kind and gentle, she will respond with head butts and affection.

Allie is fearful of other cats, so if you have a quiet home with no other cats or possibly just one other, you and Allie would be a purrfect fit!

Allie is house trained, spayed and current on her vaccinations. She is currently located in Hardy, Virginia.

If you think you or someone you know would be interested in Allie, please leave us a comment. We can send you additional photos as well as her contact information.

This is our Sunday Selfies blog hop, and we’d love for you to join in the fun. All anipals are welcome. We do not discriminate! “Come one, come all,” we say! To join the hop, use the link below. You may want to add the hop to your blog as well. If so, the code is below. If you do this, would you please be so kind as to add our badge to your post and/or link to The Cat on My Head. And don’t forget: The hop remains open for entries through Thursday at midnight.

Thanks for a great year, dear friends. We wish everyone a happy and blessed 2017.

Happy Mew Year, Kitties Blue, Allie and Humans! We are sorries the Human was so lame she missed the First Sunday Selfie, but she promises she’ll help me next Sunday. We loves you all! XOXOXOSpitty the Kitty recently posted… New Year, Good Cheer Cat Toes, Warm Doze

Happy New Year to all of you from all of us! We hope 2017 is filled with the best life can offer you ; health, happiness, love and friendship! We are sending you all lots of love and continuing love and support as you mourn the loss of your precious girl Fiona. We know she is watching over you now.

Happy New Year, sweet kitties and peeps! I hope Allie will get a wonderful forever home and start 2017 out with kindness and love for everyone.
xxoo
Maggie, Mickey Mouser, and Rufus the RedMaggie@shelter-cats recently posted…Goodbye 2016

Nice to meet pretty Allie ! We hope she finds a forever home very soon. Happy New Year to all of you ! We wish you health and happiness for 2017 ! PurrsThe Swiss Cats recently posted…Rétrospective 2016

We wish you all a much happier 2017. Thanks for letting us get to know Allie. She is a real beauty and hopefully she will have a forever home soon!
Purrs my friends
Timmy and FamilyTimmy Tomcat recently posted…Buddys Big 8th Gotcha Day Pawty

Good Morning to Allie and Happy New Year! May your year take you down whatever journey brings you the most inner peace it can. Be grateful for a new day and be grateful for new opportunities. And most of all, love yourself so you may love others. Purrs from Deb and the Zee/Zoey gang

Wow so many well wishers and barely 7am here! Janet, wishing you and Kitties Blue the most wonderful of years and thank you for everything you’ve done for our community by hosting this so-popular hop which brings everyone together! It is a place to greet friends even if we are busy during the week.

We are sorry Allie lost his human & keeping paws crossed for his transition to a furever home very soon!Peaches & Paprika recently posted…Happy 2017 to our friends!

Wishing you, Allie ~ and many, many others ~ a forever home in the New Year ahead. And may all our friends and furriends be blessed with a year of joy, good health, peace and abundant love.Zoolatry recently posted…SUNDAY SELFIE ~ On The Road Again

We are sending big purrs and prayers Allie’s way for a loving forever home where she is cherished. She is a sweet beauty and purrfect as the first selfie of 2017! We just received your beautiful Catmas card featuring sweet Fiona and are so appreciative of that…thank you…I have put it in a special place. I wish my lovely Giulietta a Happy New Year filled with peace, health, love and joy and I send love to sweet Angel Fiona. Wishing all Kitties Blue & Mom Janet and Dad Tom a 2017 filled with Love + Light!Clooney recently posted…2017

What a wonderful way to start the New Year, giving beautiful Allie a post of her very own. We are sending many purrs and prayers and happy wishes to Allie. We hope she finds her forever home sooner than soon! And, of course, we are sending warm wishes for a happy New Year to you, Kitties Blue and mom and dad!The Menagerie Mom recently posted…Happy New Year!

Happy New Years to the whole Kittie Blues Clowder!
Humans included! Mol
Allie is gorgeous! I would love another snuggle buddy but since I already have three cats, she wouldn’t like it here. I wish her all the luck in this new year finding her new home!

Happy New Years to all of yous! Mes wishes that yous gets all of yours answered and yous has the bestest one EVER!
And Allie is a cutie pie! Mes is purraying that she gets a forever home soonest.
Thanks yous for your purrayers for mes and please keeps them coming mes is not feeling so hot.
Kisses
Your furrend
Nellie BellieNellie recently posted…Happy New Years Selfie!

Happy New Year to you all.
Allie is BEAUTIFUL!
We wish with all our hearts she may find her new fur-ever home furry soon.
Purrs and smooches from Trixie, Caspurr and Shimshi (and Mummy Shimona).The J-Cats recently posted…Miaouoz Tzur

YESTERDAY

Many yesterdays have passed since
You gained your angel wings. Today
Is six months since you left us behind
To remember and mourn. Our hearts
Continue to hurt, and we miss
You as much as the day you left.
Giulietta whined from the catio
Yesterday as I worked in the yard.
I know you put her up to it. That
Was your way of getting me to,
Allow you to join me as I
Gardened. You were there with me
In spirit. With every meow
I thought of you and how much I miss
Your sweet face and disposition.
In these past few months, many friends
Have traveled your same path in your
paw-steps. I am certain you were
Waiting to greet them with purrs and hugs.
I pray you and your friends are laughing,
Frolicking and having fun together.
Picturing that makes me smile, but
Does not lessen my sadness at your
No longer being here to snuggle
And receive our love, care and kisses.
Fiona, please do not ever forget
You are still and always will be loved.

ONE YEAR MISSING YOU

One year has passed since you flew away,
And I still think of you everyday.
I see your sweet face in my mind’s eye
And wish we’d never had to say good-bye.
It’s nice you’ve sent us kitties needing a family,
But my dearest love, we are now at capacity.
You thought it would take more than one cat
To take your place in our habitat.
We love Cooper Murphy and baby Sawyer dearly
But thinking either could replace you makes me teary.
You were one-of-a-kind and will stay in my heart
Until the day I join you and we’re no longer apart.
When once again I can hold you in my arms
And revel in all your love and feline charms.
Together with you and all who have passed.
I will spend eternity contemplating how blessed
I was to share my life with my furry children,
Each and every one of you one-in-a billion.

UNTIL

ONE OF A KIND

I don’t know how to say good-bye.
I thought you were invincible; though,
You used up many of your nine lives.
You ruled us all with an iron paw;
Never took “no” for an answer
And always got your way.
If not, you’d bark to signal your
Displeasure and sometimes raise a paw.
I always joked that you were bi-polar.
When I told people you were a calico
They immediately understood what I meant.
Today was unnaturally quiet in the house.
Can a home seem empty with eight cats?
I will miss waking up at night to find you
Sitting next to me and staring at me.
I will miss you yelling at us as you did
When you wanted breakfast and dinner.
I will miss watching you lounging and snoozing
On the porch settee on a warm afternoon.
But most of all I will miss your kisses!
When kitten Sawyer befriended you,
We suspect you were imparting your
Wisdom and secrets for controlling us.
Time will tell if he was a good listener.
But whatever he may have learned,
Neither Sawyer nor any other cat
Can or will replace you in our hearts.
Lily Olivia, you were one-of-a-kind.